On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, the proable reason no one found my "QUESTION.rev" stack is that nobody
> wanted to type a taboo name. :)
>
I believe the real reason is that you uploaded your stack to the OLD
RevOnline whilst those th
After re-read all ur replies to my question my doubts are still there.
I don't understand why a simple math calculation beetween
not-in-other-way-calculated
numbers can generate round problems.
Using the value function (i've tried put value(283.67-150.00-133.67)>0
instead of
put (283.67-150.00
Until the matter is finished being debated and a plan of action is
decided on, a function could be used such as
function numsAreEqual n1, n2, epsilon
return abs(n1 - n2) < epsilon
end numsAreEqual
If your testing of the immediate comparison indicates to you that
there are no roundoff prob
Well, I don't know, but most of my programming ideas come
as intuitive flashes:
"learning becomes a Zen like experience"
when all the reasoning has fled and my mind runs screaming
through the halls of . . . Oh, sorry, I didn't know we had to
pretend that computer programming was a logical 'scien
Sorry, but I am part of the revolution (if, admittedly, only the
boy who throws eggs at the Tsar) as I am signed, and paid-up for the
conference, and so, in line to receive "4"; meanwhile, tootling around
with 2.6.1 I am, of necessity, confined to the old revOnline.
Of course, anybody who stopped
Hi Ken,
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Le 6 mai 09 à 20:12, Kennan Ray a écrit :
Excuse my ignorance, but how do you launch a stack with an "rc2
On May 8, 2009, at 5:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Stephen Cox wrote:
So I search the Dictionary on "empty", got nothing;
It's in there, in its own entry. You do have to make sure that the
"all" category is chosen in the left side column though, otherwise
the dictionary will filter results t
I have a datagrid form, with a custom row template. I am having problems
with a field that will not update the dgData when edited. The others work
fine and their properties (ie "autotab" seem to be identical). I have named
the fields the same as the keys in dgData. Having problems debuging, as the
Revolutionaries,
Here, friends, is a link to the Rev Mentor Top Ten:
http://www.revmentor.com/revolution-top-ten-video-charts-and-analyzer-4
It's an analysis of the emails posted to this list. When you click on
that link above, you will have access to the following:
1. Some charts showin
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, anybody who stopped a minute and thought, would
> have kept old versions of RR for "magical moments" such as these.
>
Which of course is a lot less time than what is wasted looking for a stack
On May 9, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Giovanni Cannizzaro wrote:
Using the value function (i've tried put
value(283.67-150.00-133.67)>0 instead of
put (283.67-150.00-133.67)>0 as suggested by Scott Rossi)
temporarily solve my
problems but I think it's a Revolution bug so I make my bug-report
'caus i'
Wouldn't it make even more sense to have a prominent link on the New
RevOnLine to the Old RevOnLine? And vice versa? But that's too obvious!
Joe Wilkins
On May 9, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
Of
Hi from Paris,
Jacqueline,
Did I correctly understand what you put in your recent post :
And if literal
names are not quoted, the engine takes twice as long to execute the
statement because of the additional lookup.
Do you mean that the statement :
If field "MyField" = "YES" then ...
e
I have a line of script that *should* have read
if the last line of t is empty then delete line -1 of t
but I mis-typed it, and instead of the '1' key, I hit the adjacent key,
and got a back quote (`), so I had
if the last line of t is empty then delete line -` of t
This script compiled
Here's what my script *should* have said
repeat while the last char of temp is CR
delete the last char of temp
end repeat
and if it has done, then it would have worked. But by mistake, I typed in
repeat while the last chr of temp is CR
delete the last char of temp
end repeat
(Note the m
Update - started working after quitting Rev and coming back to work - ah the
magical wonders of a cup of tea :)
2009/5/9 David Bovill
> I have a datagrid form, with a custom row template. I am having problems
> with a field that will not update the dgData when edited. The others work
> fine and
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Wouldn't it make even more sense to have a prominent link on the New
> RevOnLine to the Old RevOnLine? And vice versa? But that's too obvious!
>
Ah I don't think it's that easy.
New RevOnline doesn't run in Rev 3.0 or earlier, so anyon
Like some politicians we have known.
2009/5/9 Kay C Lan
> Reminds me of recent thread about
> speaking accurately but still being ambiguous
>
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Hi,
a cookbook would be a good idea not only for beginners.
Btw.: I am using THE SCRIPTER'S SCRAPBOOK from Flexible Learning as a cookbook.
I am collecting all code snippets, i find usefull, in it.
There are so many tricks, hints and code sample in this uselist, which i might
need some time. So
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Paris,
Jacqueline,
Did I correctly understand what you put in your recent post :
And if literal
names are not quoted, the engine takes twice as long to execute the
statement because of the additional lookup.
Do you mean that the statement :
If field "MyF
On May 9, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of
Carla
Schroder's great "Linux Cookbook"
Steven Cox's queries illustrate the problem very clearly. Imagine a
kitchen
with lots of pots and pans and ingredients in it.
Wait. I don't get this. You saying that checking if an unused variable is
empty returns false? Does revolution put some data in a variable when
created?
On 5/9/09 2:44 AM, "Martin Blackman" wrote:
> There is a gotcha to be aware of here.
>
> Checking if a previously unused variable is empty r
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Wouldn't it make even more sense to have a prominent link on the New
RevOnLine to the Old RevOnLine? And vice versa? But that's too obvious!
It can't be done. The two systems use different back-end databases,
different log-ins, and a completely rewritten RevOnline stac
Alex-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:54:33 AM, you wrote:
> Shouldn't this have been a compilation error ?
Not necessarily. One of the wonders of explictVars is that the
compiler will catch this kind of error for you. If you don't have
explictVars turned on then you're left to your own devices wonderi
Alex-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:31:33 AM, you wrote:
> Shouldn't this be a compile error ?
Same answer as the other question. If tracking this kind of error down
seems like a pain then turn on explictVars and get in the habit of
declaring variables.
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Jacque-
Friday, May 8, 2009, 11:25:47 AM, you wrote:
> how the engine works. I personally do not use explicit variables, I
> never declare them specifically, and I have never had any problem.
...the first step in recovery is recognizing you have a problem...
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I've run across something. Even with Strict Compilation Mode on the compiler
doesn't throw out an error if it sees some undeclared variables. So...
Local temp
Put "1234" into temp
Put "1234" into kemp
The compiles misses this completely. Of course it works cause you can create
variables on the fl
Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Friday, May 8, 2009, 11:25:47 AM, you wrote:
how the engine works. I personally do not use explicit variables, I
never declare them specifically, and I have never had any problem.
...the first step in recovery is recognizing you have a problem...
Bah. Don't sta
Peter-
Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 7:58:58 AM, you wrote:
> Oh dear what a dispiriting thread. I haven't experienced all this stuff,
Thanks to this thread I've gone back and loaded the latest rev 3.5
build onto my Ubuntu installation and find that it's much improved, to
the point of having a usable
Stephen Cox wrote:
Wait. I don't get this. You saying that checking if an unused variable is
empty returns false? Does revolution put some data in a variable when
created?
Sort of, but only in specific cases, which is mostly a side-effect of
how friendly Rev's interpreter is and how it deals
Stephen-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 9:39:27 AM, you wrote:
> I've run across something. Even with Strict Compilation Mode on the compiler
> doesn't throw out an error if it sees some undeclared variables. So...
> Local temp
> Put "1234" into temp
> Put "1234" into kemp
> The compiles misses this co
Does anyone know how or if multiple standalones use memory space or
cores? I realize they are not multi-threaded or multi-core aware. But
let's say you had five or six standalones running. Are they all in the
same space, using the same core? Or does the system dispatch and
allocate them?
I am
Can anyone suggest a way to dynamically resizing objects of a group as
the group is resized? Specifically, I have a pair of lines who's
lengths I would like to adjust by resizing the group they belong to.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Roger
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So perhaps, on further reflection, we just need some sort of "caveat"
dialog on the two sites, that let users know this problem exists when
they can't find that for which they're searching. Would save the list
having to "re-explain" this condition ad nauseam. I'm always looking
for simplist
Bryan McCormick wrote:
> Does anyone know how or if multiple standalones use memory space or
> cores? I realize they are not multi-threaded or multi-core aware. But
> let's say you had five or six standalones running. Are they all in the
> same space, using the same core? Or does the system dispat
Anyone no where this file is from - it's been in "My Revolution..." folder
for a while, is ti a rev thing or a GLX2 thing? Time for a spring clean -
would like to throw it out :)
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Kay C:
I figured that was probably an issue, but didn't take the time to
explore and think it through.
Sorry,
Joe Wilkins
On May 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins
wrote:
Wouldn't it make even more sense to have a prominent link o
Hi from Paris,
I never invented a single thing - this I left to the
real brainies. However, I inspected, copied,
extrapolated, USED (unashamedly) other peoples code,
and turned it to my advantage.
So learning Revolution was not, and is not, my
problem. There is so much brilliant code flying
arou
Humm I just compiled this and get nothing.
On 5/9/09 12:57 PM, "Mark Wieder" wrote:
> Stephen-
>
> Saturday, May 9, 2009, 9:39:27 AM, you wrote:
>
>> I've run across something. Even with Strict Compilation Mode on the compiler
>> doesn't throw out an error if it sees some undeclared variables
Roger-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:11:23 AM, you wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to dynamically resizing objects of a group as
> the group is resized? Specifically, I have a pair of lines who's
> lengths I would like to adjust by resizing the group they belong to.
> Thanks for your help.
In re
Ok I just created a new stack and put:
local temp
put "1234" into temp
put "1234" into kemp
And it compiles with no errors. Maybe I missed a checkbox someplace. Is
"Strict Compilation Mode" in the Script Editor section the only option that
has to be enabled?
On 5/9/09 12:57 PM, "Mark Wieder" w
By the way, off topic a bit:
Wouldn't "I" && "am" be the same as "I " & "am"? ((notice the space after
"I" in the second example")).
On 5/9/09 12:57 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
> Stephen Cox wrote:
>> Wait. I don't get this. You saying that checking if an unused variable is
>> empty returns fa
It is a MySQLLite database file
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San Francisco
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2009/5/9 David Bovill
> Anyone no where this file is from - it's been in "My Revolution..." folder
> for a while, is ti a rev thing or a GLX2 thing? Time for a spring clean -
> would li
Certainly should be the same. Isn't it? It is for me with 3.5.
Joe Wilkins
On May 9, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Stephen Cox wrote:
By the way, off topic a bit:
Wouldn't "I" && "am" be the same as "I " & "am"? ((notice the space
after
"I" in the second example")).
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By the way, off topic a bit:
Wouldn't "I" && "am" be the same as "I " & "am"? ((notice the space after
"I" in the second example")).
Yup.
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Stephen-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 11:15:01 AM, you wrote:
> Wouldn't "I" && "am" be the same as "I " & "am"? ((notice the space after
> "I" in the second example")).
also the same as "I" & " am"
...and just for good measure...
"I" & space & "am"
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Saturday, May 9, 2009, 11:10:46 AM, you wrote:
> Ok I just created a new stack and put:
> local temp
> put "1234" into temp
> put "1234" into kemp
> And it compiles with no errors. Maybe I missed a checkbox someplace. Is
> "Strict Compilation Mode" in the Script Editor section the only
Stephen Cox wrote:
> Ok I just created a new stack and put:
>
> local temp
> put "1234" into temp
> put "1234" into kemp
>
> And it compiles with no errors. Maybe I missed a checkbox someplace. Is
> "Strict Compilation Mode" in the Script Editor section the only option
> that
> has to be enabled
Mark Wieder wrote:
> OK - I think I see what you're doing. If I just put that into a script
> then I can compile it with or without strict compilation mode. But
> then there's nothing to execute. I'm not really clear on what is
> getting compiled at that point. I think as far as the compiler is
Thanks to Mark Smith for pointing this out (off-list) but it seems
there is an issue with the SHA-1 and Intel-based Macs.
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Stephen-
Friday, May 8, 2009, 1:08:34 PM, you wrote:
> The manual is good, but has no reference to other languages. It would help
> get my head out of OOP into Revolution.
Don't get your head *too* far out of OOP. Revolution's got
encapsulation, inheritance of a sort, and polymorphism is up to y
Thanks Jim, that's issue 1 out of the way. Now for the mystery of how
apps are handled in multicore environments.
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What was the url to that beast again?
Judy
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Of course if any one wants to go to work on my moribund
RunRev learning wiki . . .
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From: "J. Landman Gay"
Yes, that is what I meant. But Dave Cragg disproved my theory, since
apparently the engine works at the same speed in either case (but I am
still having trouble believing it; it seems counter-intuitive.) I
think
it is better scripting form to quote literals in any case
Funny, I've never declared a variable in Runtime Revolution; I thought that
was something that went out with PASCAL: even my BBC doesn't require me
to that in BBC BASIC. I remember feeling 'odd' when I got my BBC (ah, all
those years ago, out in the desert) that BBC BASIC didn't even need the
LE
Just found 'strict compilation' in my trial of RR 3.5; but couldn't
find anything about what it actually is (which makes Stephen Cox,
who is passing himself off as a Newbie, look much longer in the
tooth than I am).
So; what is 'strict compilation', and why should we be
interested?
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mind you; the word 'beast' is apposite, in the sense that it
resembles something big, ungainly and of little apparent
use, at least at present.
Judy Perry wrote:
What was the url to that beast again?
Judy
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Richmond Mathewson
However, in the light of questions from the likes of Stephen Cox, I for one
won't even consider touching that Wiki until after the conference, when
I should be the proud owner of something 'slightly' newer than
RevMedia 2.9. I do hope that with the launch of '4' the central GUI
will remain the sam
2009/5/9 Richmond Mathewson
> What, if any, is the advantage of declaring variables in RR ?
>
Better error checking, I guess.
> How do you declare variables in RR ?
>
local tLocalVar = "This is a local string"
local x,y,z
global tGlobalvar = "This is a global string"
---
Richmond-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 1:14:47 PM, you wrote:
> So; what is 'strict compilation', and why should we be
> interested?
"Strict compilation" was formerly referred to as "explictVars".
Setting the checkbox *forces* you to declare all your variables or be
faced with compile errors. The adva
Thanks Stephen - I guess what i need to know is if a Rev plugin or framework
needs this file - or if it is just hanging around from a tutorial stack.
I'll try moving it away and see if anything breaks - trouble is everything
is very broken :( Getting a crash every 5 minutes at the moment - revertin
On May 9, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
I have never written a line of HTML, have never
written commands to access, upload, download,
FTP, anything to or from the Internet. I have 40 years
of programming expertise, and I don't know where
to start off writing code for my Interne
Beats me: I think I'll continue 'conjuring variables out of the air':
put "Who's afraid of undeclared variables?" && "bah, humbug!" into
POOBAH :)
stephen barncard wrote:
2009/5/9 Richmond Mathewson
What, if any, is the advantage of declaring variables in RR ?
Better error che
Where is Danny Goodman?
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No, it's just a data file. If you are not using MySQL-Lite then delete it.
But it doesn't execute. If you ever fired up MySQL-Lite then I think that's
the default name.
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2009/5/9 David Bovill
> Thanks Stephen - I guess
Have you deleted the rev preferences?
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2009/5/9 David Bovill
> Thanks Stephen - I guess what i need to know is if a Rev plugin or
> framework
> needs this file - or if it is just hanging around from a tutorial stack.
>
On May 9, 2009, at 2:00 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com
wrote:
Roger-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:11:23 AM, you wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way to dynamically resizing objects of a group
as
the group is resized? Specifically, I have a pair of lines who's
lengths I would like t
> OK, loaded Puppy 4.2, with the copy to memory option and using Xorg not VESA.
>
> Ran the IDE 3.5, and it seemed fine. Fired up a few stacks and they were
> fine, positively snappy.
I couldn't even get *that* far... I'm using 4.2, and Xorg (not sure if I
have copy to memory on - where would I
No - I haven't - think I've tracked it to using GLX2 clairvoyance in the
message box - I guess that is active even when the Script Editor isn't.
2009/5/9 stephen barncard
> Have you deleted the rev preferences?
>
> -
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://barncard.co
No - I haven't - think I've tracked it to using GLX2 clairvoyance in the
message box - I guess that is active even when the Script Editor isn't.
2009/5/9 stephen barncard
> Have you deleted the rev preferences?
>
> -
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://barncard.c
Do you mean 'Danny Goodman' the man, or 'Danny Goodman' the
wonderful book about Hypercard?
As far as I know the man is "off, elsewhere"; i.e. not interested in
Hypercard's successors:
http://www.dannyg.com/
I have a copy of the book; currently languishing in my attic
in Scotland, it will be re
Writing as someone who, generally, learns from his errors, and
trying to work out why they are error, this sounds as if it would
not be a great advantage to me.
Probably much more useful for somebody trying to belt out
something with a very quick SDLC or turn-around.
Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond
I just tried the Slitaz distro on my MacBook Pro. looks really good
.. but ... I can't get it to eject the CD image. Holding down the C
key does not work HELP
this is the first Linux distro I've tried in years...
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Force of habit. And there are many languages that require variable checking.
And indeed typing. Like C, C++, C#, VB , Python, JS, AS, ST, Perl, and on
and on. Anyway it's one of Revolution strengths not to requiring variable
typing and creation.
On 5/9/09 4:09 PM, "Richmond Mathewson" wrote:
>
Ken-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2:10:04 PM, you wrote:
> I couldn't even get *that* far... I'm using 4.2, and Xorg (not sure if I
> have copy to memory on - where would I check?) and downloaded Rev 3.5. Went
> to launch it and nothing happened. When I tried to launch it in from the
> console I got al
Never mind, I figured it out.
2009/5/9 stephen barncard
> I just tried the Slitaz distro on my MacBook Pro. looks really good
> .. but ... I can't get it to eject the CD image. Holding down the C
> key does not work HELP
>
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Why not just comment - leave notes - in the online Dictionary? That be easy
for all to di and help a lot.
On 5/9/09 2:59 AM, "Peter Alcibiades" wrote:
> I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of Carla
> Schroder's great "Linux Cookbook"
>
> Steven Cox's queries illu
The notes can't be entered by users in earlier versions. The comments are
tied into the NEW revonline.
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2009/5/9 Stephen Cox
> Why not just comment - leave notes - in the online Dictionary? That be easy
> for all to di
Actually I'm not so sure it even matters, considering this isn't a typed
language.
I was just surprised when I ran my first try at code and had errors at
runtime. Almost every compiler I've used checked variables. Why I asked in
the first place.
On 5/9/09 5:24 PM, "Richmond Mathewson" wrote:
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> May be this is a goofy question; but it can probably bear
> the asking one more time:
>
> What, if any, is the advantage of declaring variables in RR ?
- Unles yu ar an perfct typst who has nevr made a typo and nevar use a speel
checker, explicitVariables instantly in
Richmond-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2:24:47 PM, you wrote:
> Writing as someone who, generally, learns from his errors, and
> trying to work out why they are error, this sounds as if it would
> not be a great advantage to me.
Not to worry - there's plenty of errors to go around...
...I'd be happy
The same with mac os x (10.5) : 2 apps = 2 cores at work.
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Le 9 mai 09 à 19:21, Jim Bufalini a écrit :
Bryan McCormick wrote:
Does anyone know how or if multiple standalones use memory space or
cores? I realize they are not mul
Mark Wieder wrote:
Alex-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:31:33 AM, you wrote:
Shouldn't this be a compile error ?
Same answer as the other question. If tracking this kind of error down
seems like a pain then turn on explictVars and get in the habit of
declaring variables.
I accept that
All-
The new revOnline browser is a bit of a mystery to me. Over on the
left there's a kind of filter and I've figured out how the filtering
works, although (nudge, nudge, wink to the rev team) it would be more
useful if the various keywords also displayed how many entries I could
expect to find i
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Funny, I've never declared a variable in Runtime Revolution; I thought
that
was something that went out with PASCAL: even my BBC doesn't require me
to that in BBC BASIC. I remember feeling 'odd' when I got my BBC (ah,
all
those years ago, out in the desert) that BBC B
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:33 AM, David Bovill wrote:
> Anyone no where this file is from - it's been in "My Revolution..." folder
> for a while, is ti a rev thing or a GLX2 thing? Time for a spring clean -
> would like to throw it out :)
It's the demo SQLite database created by the SQLite sample
> My problem is elsewhere.
>
> I have never written a line of HTML, have never
> written commands to access, upload, download,
> FTP, anything to or from the Internet. I have 40 years
> of programming expertise, and I don't know where
> to start off writing code for my Internet sites, or how
> to p
Alex-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 5:10:44 PM, you wrote:
> I accept that for 'chr' (though I wonder what "the last myVar of temp"
> means) ?
> But for the other example, I don't get it. Why is
>> if the last line of t is empty then delete line -` of t
> affected by variable checking ?Is ` a
Alex-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 5:16:10 PM, you wrote:
> The advantage is that if yuor tipyng is as dab as nime tehn oyur erorrs
> teg caugth soneer :-)
Would that it worked that way. But if you type
put 42 into myVarr
instead of
put 42 into myVar
then rev will happily create a new variable for
Jim Bufalini wrote:
- It allows you to distinguish globals from script locals and constants both
at the script level and handler level.
You can do that without declaring them explicitly too.
- It allows you to declare globals from inside a handler (which creates a
"semi" global that is only
Mark Wieder wrote:
All-
The new revOnline browser is a bit of a mystery to me. Over on the
left there's a kind of filter and I've figured out how the filtering
works, although (nudge, nudge, wink to the rev team) it would be more
useful if the various keywords also displayed how many entries I c
I made a bug regarding that in december, it's unconfirmed, so i assume
no one from runrev ever looked at it:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7566
If I remember correctly, my one week prediction was off by about -2
days...
On 10 May 2009, at 03:13, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Jacque-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 6:01:53 PM, you wrote:
Ah... I *knew* this would push Jacque's buttons...
> 1. The main strength of xtalk is that you do not have to declare or type
> variables. Sticking them up there at the top of every handler removes
> one of the main advantages of using Rev i
Dear Jacque,
To each his/her own. ;-) And, of course, we all know you are a novelist (in
English) and one who probably doesn't use a spell checker. ;-)
But, just to clarify, so that what I said is not misinterpreted. I never
said there is anything you cannot "do" without explicitVariables turned
On 5/9/09 5:03 PM, "Mark Wieder" wrote:
> Ken-
>
> Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2:10:04 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I couldn't even get *that* far... I'm using 4.2, and Xorg (not sure if I
>> have copy to memory on - where would I check?) and downloaded Rev 3.5. Went
>> to launch it and nothing happened.
Mark Wieder wrote:
> I recognize hyperbole when I see it, but nonetheless I don't think you
> can have 8 lines of declarations and three lines of actual script (and
> of course someone will post some code that proves me wrong). If you
> come across a handler like this then you have at least five l
Following this thread has pushed another one of my buttons and I
cannot resist getting on my soap-box and inserting my two-bits.
We have "all" become accustomed to protecting ourselves from
ourselves. To the point where some of us pass laws requiring that
everyone protect themselves. I'm ta
Ken-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 9:59:51 PM, you wrote:
>> Anything like BZ #5382?
> No, thse are all related to colormaps and screen updating, like:
> (:8601): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gdk_colormap_new: assertion
> `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual) failed
I love it when you talk dirty.
Look farther down in BZ #538
Joe-
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:09:15 PM, you wrote:
>vigilant and knowledgeable within all aspects of our lives. Not
>declaring vars merely promotes sloppiness and, eventually, stupidity.
I've found that I can declare vars and still be perfectly stupid,
thank you.
--
-Mark Wieder
mwie...@ahso
Well.. God.. Sorry all for starting this. :)
Use what you want. I'll keep it on cause I'm used to that type of
environment. Used to declaring variables. And it's in my head.
On 5/10/09 1:09 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" wrote:
> Following this thread has pushed another one of my buttons and I
> ca
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